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ESICM ANNUAL REPORT 2018-2019 CONTENTS I. Introduction by the President & President-Elect................................................................................................ 5 II. About ESICM............................................................................................................................................................6 1. Who we are......................................................................................................................................................... 8 Objectives............................................................................................................................................................8 Aims & Missions................................................................................................................................................. 8 ESICM elects newleadership............................................................................................................................. 9 2. Organisational Structure.................................................................................................................................10 National Societies.............................................................................................................................................10 Council...............................................................................................................................................................11 3. Membership......................................................................................................................................................14 III. Actvities of the ESICM Division Of Scientific Affairs..........................................................................................16 Introduction....................................................................................................................................................... 19 1. ESICM Annual Congress & LIVES Forum....................................................................................................... 20 LIVES................................................................................................................................................................. 20 A retrospective look at LIVES 2018.................................................................................................................. 21 2. ESICM Research...............................................................................................................................................24 Report on the Research Committee................................................................................................................ 24 Acute Kidney Injury...........................................................................................................................................27 ARF Section.......................................................................................................................................................28 CD section..........................................................................................................................................................28 ETH section........................................................................................................................................................30 HSRO section......................................................................................................................................................31 Infection section................................................................................................................................................32 NIC section........................................................................................................................................................ 33 POIC section...................................................................................................................................................... 34 MEN section...................................................................................................................................................... 36 SIS section.........................................................................................................................................................38 TEM section.......................................................................................................................................................39 Gobal Intensive Care Working Group........................................................................................................... 39 IV. Activities of the ESICM Division of Professional Development........................................................................ 40 1. DPD................................................................................................................................................................... 42 2. Communication Committee............................................................................................................................ 45 The ESICM Annual Report describes ESICM activities from October 2018 to October 2019. V. NEXT..................................................................................................................................................................... 46 Only the Treasurer’s Report refers to the fiscal year from 1st January 2018-2019. VI. N&AHP.....................................................................................................................................................................52 VII. ICM & ICM X Journals......................................................................................................................................... 56 VIII. Treasurer’s Report.............................................................................................................................................. 62 IX. Key events 2020................................................................................................................................................... 68 X. Get more from your Society................................................................................................................................ 74 ESICM ANNUAL REPORT 2018-2019 Introduction by the President & President-Elect Dear Colleagues Introduction by the President and President Elect We would like to begin this annual report by thanking all our members for helping us shape the Society that we are proud to represent on their behalf. It is almost one year since we launched the Society’s Fund, ALIVE, and the Society, along with the generous support of GE Health Care, has successfully embarked on a training programme in countries of low and middle income. Working closely with the Global Intensive Care (GIC) Working Group, the Society has designed a first course, written and delivered by members of Jozef Kesecioglu & Maurizio Cecconi the GIC Working Group. As the majority of deaths in these parts of the world are from acute infectious diseases and sepsis, the content covered An additional, new-style Forum, will take place next February in Prague, the management of sepsis and included bedside clinical teaching. 42 with a focus on the key physiology concepts required to manage complex health care workers in Uganda benefitted from the two-day training in and real cases. Our regular Summer Forum will be in Dublin next May Kampala in June, which involved local and visiting faculty. and addresses septic shock. The ALIVE sepsis course will be taken to Pakistan in November 2019 and Closer integration of our N&AHP has been a long-term target for some Mongolia in May 2020. Content from the course’s 16 modules will also be time and there are now multi-professional representatives engaged in made available online and hosted on the Academy platform. We are very six of our Master Classes as part of the faculty and N&AHP attend the confident that the Fund will grow steadily and support more educational Master Classes courses in encouraging numbers. programmes in countries confronting sepsis around the world. A blended learning course on Critical Care Rehabilitation was offered to The Society took a major step forward tackling diversity inequalities in N&AHP members this year, who could connect online and come together Intensive Care. We also established The Diversity Task Force that has in Berlin for the concluding face-to-face workshop held at LIVES. worked on analysing issues and promoting solutions. AppIC has now been translated into five different languages – English, Not long after last year’s congress in Paris, the Society’s Diversity Task French, Spanish, Italian and Greek and a number of articles and topics Force Statement Paper on diversity and equality was published in the added. Plans are in place to integrate part of the content on the Society’s ICM journal. This paper outlined a one- and three-year plan aiming at eLearning platform. the identification of potential gaps and an implementation of concrete Along with our regular webinars and live debate style webinars, our projects for members of the ESICM. Diversity-related data available portfolio of Master Classes has grown, with several new courses created from the membership database was analysed and included in the report this year. Many of our educational products attract industry support and in aggregated form. receive accreditation points. A major